What is Crypto Art, and Why? with Everest Pipkin

Factually! with Adam Conover

Headgum

Comedy

4.6 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 28 April 2021

⏱️ 84 minutes

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It had to happen eventually: We’re doing an episode about crypto. This week artist and technologist Everest Pipkin joins Adam to discuss Bitcoin, the blockchain, and the dire costs of crypto art, not only on our environment, but on the art community itself. Find Everest Pipkin’s art at https://everest-pipkin.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	This is a HeadGum podcast.
0:04.0	Hello everyone, welcome to Factually, I'm here with you guys.
0:29.0	Welcome to Factually, I'm Adam Connover and you know there's an old saying on Wall Street
0:33.6	that when even your shoe shine boy has given you stock tips, it might be time to get out
0:38.2	of the market.
0:39.2	Things might be getting a little overheated and weird.
0:42.2	Well, you know, I think we might be in another one of those stages of capitalism right
0:48.1	now because I don't know if you've noticed I certainly have over the last couple months
0:52.9	seemingly everyone in my life has started talking about crypto.
0:57.8	I can't get enough of it.
0:59.2	I got friends buying, selling and trading crypto and they don't even know what the hell it
1:04.3	is.
1:05.3	The ones who aren't getting into it have crypto FOMO and my grandma just called me to
1:09.4	ask how she could buy Dogecoin.
1:11.7	Okay.
1:12.7	I admit I made that up.
1:13.7	She's dead.
1:14.7	But the point stands and people have been asking me what my take is.
1:19.5	So let's get into it.
1:20.7	Let's talk about crypto.
1:21.7	I guarantee if you are sick of the topic, we are going to talk about it in ways that you
1:25.9	will not expect.
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